Hospital workers suspended after setting up nail salon in NICU

CALIFORNIA: Embarrassing allegations against a southern California hospital have resulted in the suspension of two employees.

Two complaints allege that workers at Olive View UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar gave manicures and even eyebrow waxes to other employees inside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and that some of the staff set up shop on top of medical equipment used to care for high risk newborns.

"I would worry that some of the chemicals in the air would make it harder for the newborn babies to breathe," said Dr. Rebecca Brown, an OB/GYN at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "Especially given the fact that a lot of them are on respirators."

The hospital issued a statement saying:

"No NICU patients were harmed or transferred to other hospitals as a result of these allegations."